KRG Fails to Combat Violence Against Women in Kurdistan
Despite efforts by the Kurdistan Regional Government to reduce violence against women, figures recently made public show that there has been little improvement, writes Abdel Hamid Zebari.
For years, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq has struggled to fight violence against women in the region, with statistics still indicating high rates of violence amid efforts by feminists to challenge the government's strategy on this issue.
The KRG first began to show interest in violence against women a few years ago, when they amended certain laws and deemed honor killings "willful murder, whose perpetrators will receive the severest penalties."
